For a lowcost upgrade of $320.00 you get a set of 3 boutique hand scatter-wound 1961 Pre-CBS pickups in a Fully  Loaded Pickguard with top of the line electronics. CTS pots, CRL 5-Way, 047 cap and new Switchcraft guitar jack.  Your choice of 5 pickguard colors, Mint Green, Black, White, Red Tortoise and Vintage Brown Tortoise. Comes with a complete Fender Aged White Accessory kit which includes all Pickup Covers and knobs,  5-Way tip, Tremolo Tip and  Tremolo cover. Returning customers receive a Loyalty discount of 10% off for $288.00 with FREE shipping to the lower 48.                      Demo at the bottom.

• M.I.E. Music " Music is Everything "
• The 1961 Stratocaster was played by 2 of my favorite players who are no longer with us but their music still lives in us, the late great Gary Moore and Rory Gallahger was known world wide and respected by all musicians.
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd still tours with his beloved 1961 Stratocaster. These pickups love pedals and any kind of amp you play them through, tube or solid state. They even sound great on today's modelers. Great for touring or in the recording studio. 

1961 Custom Hand/Scatter Wound Boutique Pickups in a loaded 5-way pickguard. With a RWRP Middle Pickup and Beveled and Staggered magnets. These pickups come with a complete Fender PN# 0991368000- Aged White 

• accessory kit. It includes Pickup Covers, All 3 knobs, 5-Way Tip, Tremolo arm Tip and Tremolo back cover. CRL 5-way /CTS 250k Full size pots, and 047 Orange drop cap with Vintage push back cloth wire and includes a new guitar jack. My stock pickguard colors are White, Black, Mint Green, Red Tortoise or Vintage Tortoise Brown.
• These pickups can average on the low side of 6.00k to the High of 6.10k plus. The Henries was 3.00 and under. This was going through numerous 1961's including my own.
• I specialize only in Vintage Stratocaster Pickups and for years now my Hand Wound Vintage tone pickups, magnifies the harmonics, the incidentals, the upper octaves, the fifths and the relationship of the pick to index finger strikes while maintaining strong sustained fundamental tone and real clarity. Most of my favorite Vintage Fender pickups have a little bulge in the middle and not the flat sides you see in CNC machined pickups. I added the bulge to replicate my Vintage pickups.
•   Detailed pickup information below: The main reason Fender vintage guitars are so sought after is the Tone . That Tone came from Hand Wound Pickups. I have a full demo channel on YouTube and I am easy to find but due to policy I can not share any direct links as a buyer or seller since all messages everything is scanned by AI BOTS. I have nothing but 5 star reviews on my pickups on all of my selling sites and a high rate of returning buyers.
  
  1961 Pre-CBS Black Bobbin: 
• Specs:  Averages
  Tested at 77 degrees and 42% humidity, +/- 5% on a DER EE LCR DE-5000 , this LCR tester has a usb output that you can save on your PC in Microsoft . This gives me a record of every pickup I have made and sold. My 1961 Pre CBS pickups average at 6.00k to 6.10k plus and 3.0 and under on Henries.
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  Modifications: RWRP middle Pickup and 5-Way switch .
  
  My Assembly Steps:
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  1-  I install the Alnico 5 Rod Magnets into the flatwork, using a Pickup Jig on an hand Arbor Press.
• 2-  I dip the finished bobbin in Lacquer.  This does four things, #1 It keeps the coil wire from shorting out directly onto the magnet. This is where 90% of Vintage Fender Pickups fail. The coil wire rubbing against the magnets. A chemical reaction from the formvar sheilding which causes corrosion. This also glues the flatwork to the magnets, eliminating the use of super glue. Dry time varies.  24 hours average. I also Flux/Solder the start and finish wires on the bobbin adding extra windings on the eyelets.
• 3-  Pickup Winding-I use a MojoTone Pickup Winder.  Varying my patterns and wire tension and proprietary way that I've developed,  coming from months of hand on research and beta testing.
• 4-  I install lead Vintage Push Back Cloth Wires directly to the pickups.
• 5-  Perform the initial testing. k ohms, henries, and nf capacitance @1k and rp @1k
• 6-  Waxing- I use 80% Paraffin and 20% Beeswax. Heated to 140-150 degrees for 10-15 minutes for the perfect response and clarity or once the bubbles quit coming out of the flatware. The Beeswax keeps the wax soft so it doesn't dry up, crack and get flaky down the road with time.
• 7-  I wrap the coil with fabric tape for Four reasons:  #1  It cuts down the chances of damaging the coil when changing pickup covers.  #2  Helps stop high gain monophonic feedback.  The tape has zero effect on tone. #3 Keeps out moisture, Just an added protection and expense of building a long lasting reliable pickup. # 4 Some guitarist while recording will sit in the control room with the amp in the ISO room, while others like to sit or stand by their amp. I started to notice that most Gibson guitars did not have that high squeal and after checking, those guitars had fabric tape on the pickups. So I put some Fabric tape on a few of my Strats and was floored that this worked. Back in the 50's there was really no need for it because the amps was not as high powered as today's. Leo was a known tight wad and maybe he didn't want to add to the time and expense? No change in tone.
• 8-  Perform second round of testing, confirming the correct specifications are met.

• 9-  Charge magnets.  I use a MoJoTone  N/S Charger.  I  fully  charge all rod magnets Once sold. I test the Gauss on a digital Tesla meter making sure of a even smooth charge across each magnet. Then I put the lead wires through the Flatware hole. I retest the polarity of the pickups which are North for the Neck and Bridge and South for the RWRP Middle pickup with a small hand tester.
• 10-  Assemble and solder Pickguard. I have a 5 way template finished and all I have to do is solder in the pickups you choose and what color of pickguard you want, and how you would like the 5-way tone knobs wired. The most common setup today is the neck and middle on tone knob 1 and the Bridge pickup on Tone knob 2. I can wire your 5-way to your liking if you prefer a different way.
• I been playing Strats for over 50 years and have a pretty good idea of how a Vintage Strat should sound. I am also sure many of you also know. Polls show 80% of the Strat players are happy with their tone. I am after that 20% very picky players. I would love to have orders from that 80% to show them what they are missing and what a low cost upgrade can do for their guitar and the enjoyment these pickups can bring.
• These pickups are made one at a time, by me, in my small USA shop. I use USA Remington wire and have made my pickups as affordable as possible, using the highest quality parts from top USA suppliers. My pickups have that true vintage tone that only fine made hand/scatter wound pickups can bring. All my pickups are vintage spec'd to the correct pre CBS or early CBS years. It takes about 2 weeks to reverse engineer a guitar pickup by taking Videos and notes and playing back in super slow motion. I have spent my most time studing the work of my favorite famous winders, Abigal Ybarra, Virgil Arlo, David White and Alan Hamel just to name a few. So I knew I had a very high bar to climb.
• My pickups are made to last, and come from the result of listening to my vintage guitar collection, and taking apart a bucket full of DEAD Fender pickups, studying them, painstakingly un-winding them, and taking very detailed notes. This is how I came up with my proprietary way of hand winding my pickups. I started BETA testing in 2020 on every kind of neck and body wood made. Plus tested on tube and solid state amps, pedals, digital devices, and software in my recording studio, that I opened in 1999, with fantastic results. All of my pickups are BETA tested for 6 months by professional Musicians who work the road and recording studios.
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• I have built numerous partcasters, and have installed my pickups, and they are highly comparable to my vintage collection. I am receiving great reviews and feedback from all the guitar players currently using my pickups.
• " Enjoy peace of mind with your new gear." I sell on my website to the USA  lower 48, Same on Reverb. ALL international shipping I do through eBay only. I also accept PayPal.
• The work has been done, so install, and you will find complete nirvana for recording and playing live.
• Jobe Jude MIE MUSIC "Music is Everything"
• Thank you for supporting a small USA company. j

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  M.I.E. Music

   

  I specialize in Vintage Fender Single coil pickups only. Pre-CBS 1954-1964 and Early CBS Grey bottoms 65-70 plus the 1982 AVRI Red Bottom / White top or the JV Grey bottom pickups.Here you will find my process and information on selecting the correct pickups for you and your instrument.

   

   

  I've been in the music business for over 50 years. Toured from 1974 to 1999 .Then I opened my own music studio in 1999, M.I.E. Music. I have built what they refer to as "partcasters" and upgraded American and MIM Strats all of my music career, but due to the Covid closures, it gave me time to address a couple things on my bucket list. I wanted to learn how to do nitrocellulose paint jobs and being an owner and a fan of Virgil Arlo's hand wound pickups, who finally retired in 2019 and he wound pickups for the Stars at 1-2 grand a set. Then 3 of our most beloved Fender winders, Pilar Lopez, who was there in 54 and later in 58, trained Abigail Ybbara, who then trained Josephina Campos to the secrets of great sounding hand wound pickups. I had to investigate why they're tones are so special. It became time to do research and development of Leo Fender's single coil pickups. After months of beta testing with some of my favorite guitar players, it was time to bring them to market. This was a very high bar to climb.
  For Years now my Vintage Stratocaster pickups magnifies the harmonics , the incidentals, the upper octaves, the fifths and the relationship of pick to index finger strikes while maintaining strong sustained fundamental tone and real clarity for studio or cutting through with a live band. I like putting a little bulge in the middle of the pickup to 

  replicate my favorite Vintage Stratocaster pickups. Be sure to watch my YouTube Channel: miemusicjobe4423 and it has chapters on my builds and demos of my pickups. Be sure to like, click, and subscribe on the notifications for upcoming interviews and pickup demos. I currently have 10 Vintage Strat pickups to choose from. Pre-CBS 54-56, 57/62's,1959, 1961's. 1963 and the 98 AVRI's. The early CBS gray bottoms 64/65- 1970 and 1969's. I also build the 1982 AVRI's with White Tops and Red or Gray Bottoms. I build a Custom setup called the     "Gunslinger" which has a 54 on the neck, either a 63 or 82 AVRI Middle topped off with a slightly overwound 69 bridge pickup or a AP Flat magnet with a bottom plate. Take time to look at my adds for the #1 low cost upgrade to get that true Vintage tone. Once you have owned a true set of scattered wound pickups no other set of pickups will do. I build my pickups with the highest quality parts from USA vendors. I am after those picky guitar players who know what Vintage tone is and what to do with it . Available in a set of 3 pickups, or a loaded 3 or 5-way pickguard in Mint Green, Black, White, Red Tortoise and Vintage Brown Tortoise colors. Topped off with Fender Vintage Aged White Covers and knobs, the complete accessory kit. This will give your instrument that 50 year plus old Vintage look and not only sound great, your instrument will look great too.  M.I.E. pickups are made by me one at a time the old school way. Complete step by step video below on building my pickups.   Thanks Jobe Jude M.I.E. Music 

  Free Shipping - Spend $290 or more at M.I.E. Music and get free Standard shipping to the lower 48 at checkout.. Returning customers, there is a loyalty purchase section giving you an extra 10% off and FREE shipping to the lower 48 on loaded pickguards on my website only. I currently accept PayPal. I only use eBay for international shipping